Re: Channels connected to typebased agents.


Subject: Re: Channels connected to typebased agents.
From: Eckhardt Holz (holz#informatik.hu-berlin.de)
Date: Mon Jan 22 2001 - 10:17:41 GMT


I agree to delete this because it realy seems to be a left-over. In
SDL-2000 there will always be implcit channles derived from unconnected
gates.

Eckhardt

Rick Reed TSE schrieb:
>
> In 9. Agents Semantics of Z.100 there is a paragraph:
>
> "If an <agent definition> or an <agent type definition>, which is used in a
> <textual typebased agent definition>, contains <channel definition>s and
> <textual typebased agent definition>s, then each gate of the <agent type
> definition>s of the contained <textual typebased agent definition>s must be
> connected to a channel."
(...)
> It seems to me that if the channels are omitted, implicit channels would be
> derived in any case. Also it seems to imply although it is allowed to derive
> a channel to a gate on a non-typebased agent, this is not allowed in the
> typebased case.
>
> I propose to delete the paragraph.
>
> I think that it is old text from the "all channels or no channels" rules of
> SDL-92.
>
> Comments?
>
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